According to Ahval news website the ministry added that operations were carried out across 42 provinces to capture the suspects in coordination with chief prosecutor's offices across the country.

Police found a large number of guns, rifles, and cartridges and ammunition clips belonging to the weapons, as well as well as organizational documents and digital materials during the raids.

The PKK is an armed group, which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for almost four decades.

Some 75,453 people have been detained in Turkey in the last five years on terrorism charges, 19,018 of whom were arrested and imprisoned.

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